Fisher News

07/30/2025 - Dr. Fernando Ontiveros, associate professor of biology in the School of Arts and Sciences at St. John Fisher University, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for the 2025-2026 academic year.

07/25/2025 - St. John Fisher University has named Jennifer Granger, who has served the University's intercollegiate athletics program for more than two decades, as its director of athletics and recreation. Granger served as the department's interim director from June 2024 to June 2025.

07/23/2025 - For the second consecutive year, St. John Fisher University was named the top winner in all three higher education categories in the Rochester Business Journal’s 2025 Reader Rankings.

07/18/2025 - Collegium Magazine shares the stories of Fisher alumni encounters across the globe

07/15/2025 - After crossing the stage to receive her diploma at Commencement, Emily Tollar stepped straight into the classroom, putting her degree in inclusive childhood education to work as a middle school special education teacher.

07/15/2025 - Women’s volleyball standouts Kiera Hartpence and Kaylene Noble recently represented St. John Fisher University on the international stage, competing on a United States Division III National Team that traveled to Brazil.

07/14/2025 - For more than a decade, St. John Fisher University has been recognized among Money.com’s “Best Colleges in America.”

07/11/2025 - Dr. Augustina West ’18 (Ed.D.) recently joined the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. School of Education as director of the executive leadership doctoral program’s Iona University extension site.

07/10/2025 - Four gifts totaling nearly $1 million will furnish and name study spaces, lounge areas, and offices in the newly modernized Lavery Library at St. John Fisher University, scheduled to open this fall.

07/09/2025 - Two groups of scholars from the Wegmans School of Nursing at St. John Fisher University earned first place for their poster presentations at the Eastern Nursing Research Society’s Scientific Sessions.